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Now open, The Gantry at LC-39 offers more than a close up view of the launch pads. See a preview of this new KSC VC bus tour ...
Welcome to Edition 8.02 of the Rocket Report! It's worth taking a moment to recognize an important anniversary in the history ...
Live updates from the launch of the Ax-4 mission. The long delayed Axiom Space Mission 4 crew lifted off at 2:31 a.m. on June 25.
A draft environmental impact report reveals plans to demolish several space-shuttle era structures as SpaceX gets set to add a second launch facility at ...
As of Tuesday afternoon, SpaceX has officially confirmed the next rocket launch is set for 9:30 a.m. on May 28 from Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A. Read the full story here.
All 135 Space Shuttle Launches happened from Florida. There are two launch pads - 39a and 39b. First the space shuttle is taken to the Orbital Processing Facility (OPF) where maintenance takes place.
It's been 39 years since the Challenger space shuttle, carrying seven people, took off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center, exploding in mere minutes.
It would be 32 months before another shuttle left a launch pad. Within days, NASA concluded two rubber O-rings in Challenger’s right solid rocket booster had failed because temperatures ...
There were high hopes for launching the space shuttle Discovery from Vandenberg Air Force Base in 1983, including a promotional tour where the spacecraft flew into the Central Coast base.
At slower than a walking pace, the prototype that helped launch America’s space shuttle program paraded down Downey streets Thursday morning on its way to a temporary housing location in ...
Upgrades at SpaceX's most-used launch pad in Florida got a trial run Thursday with the liftoff of a Falcon 9 rocket with a Dragon cargo ship heading for the International Space Station.